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by cosmie 6y ago
For purely analytics systems, it's already pretty easy to leverage server-side calls or an internal proxy service to route figures, which does truly mask where the data is going (but should still be disclosed in your privacy policy). A
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by cosmie 6y ago
That's definitely a really common issue. And correcting internal links when that happens is always a painful process - the artificially inflated site traffic figures it creates have likely been celebrated and publicized internally, and
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by cosmie 6y ago
You don't have to; GA actually does support precisely the scenario you're proposing - you can use a random campaign key/identifier in a utm_id field, and upload a custom dataset mapping to GA that contains the details to ma
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by cosmie 6y ago
Yea, that combined with the User Activity API is incredibly handy. Especially useful to pull out when some anomaly occurs, and stakeholders suddenly want a particular conversion under the microscope (an unexpected enterprise user, unusually
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by cosmie 6y ago
One word of caution with battery powered mowers is they tend to weigh about 2x as much as a gas powered or corded electric mower. May be a non-issue for you, but bit me hard when I tried to go that route. My lawn has poor drainage and never
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by cosmie 6y ago
Also a happy Ryobi user. Even more so after I stumbled on [1] from Slickdeals; they rotate through a ton of Ryobi stock (factory blemished and refurbished) and I haven't ran into any duds yet. Between that site and frequent Home Depot
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by cosmie 6y ago
> how have you been able to switch consistently with such ease? Originally, it was anything but easy. But at this point in my career, the pattern itself is what sells it: - I've never left a company having the same title or role I s
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by cosmie 6y ago
This. I've built my career off of diversity of experience - changing both the industry and functional role I work in almost every time I change companies. It's amazing how impactful it can be to take an industry-naïve approach to
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by cosmie 6y ago
The multi-user aspect is super handy. It's also nifty that it exposes pretty much all of the functionality via a REST API, complete with the ability to manage OAuth clients/tokens. Not something I expected to really leverage, but
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by cosmie 6y ago
TigerDirect[1] is a solid alternative to Newegg, that doesn't appear to have succumbed to the easy buck of the marketplace model. [1] http://www.tigerdirect.com/
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by cosmie 6y ago
Firefly[1][2] is also a really useful personal finance app. It's more akin to a self-hosted version of Mint. Combined with the Plaid connector[3], I find it the easiest to use for my workflow. And despite the instructions, you don&#x27
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by cosmie 6y ago
Not sure how easy it is to switch from postpaid to prepaid plans, but there's T-Mobile Connect[1]. Unlimited talk and text, plus 2GB of data for $15/month. [1] https://prepaid.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans/connec
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by cosmie 6y ago
I'm really not certain, as I've never seen an implementation that involved it. There was a lot of stink about it 5 years ago[1], which called out the exact argument of it not working for HTTPS traffic. Which, is a substantially la
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by cosmie 6y ago
Cookie-based tracking, sure. But there are plenty of other avenues for fingerprinting. This[1] help doc from Adobe Analytics even makes reference to a Subscriber ID header you can get mobile carriers to give you, if you get onto the carrier
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by cosmie 6y ago
They can also see that you use Discord, as well as how often and how heavily. And potentially other facets that can be derived from whatever metadata is provided to Facebook in the course of serving that image request. There's also all
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by cosmie 6y ago
Google already does it with Gmail[1][2], so it's not unheard of. But it adds another layer of complexity, plus is somewhat antithetical to the privacy viewpoint as it then exposes all of the images to the app developer now since it&#
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by cosmie 6y ago
Read the privacy policy[1]. Think of Giphy images as a giant, organically shared version of web tracking software. Which complements the coverage of the FB Pixel[2] well, as it worms its way into privacy-conscious areas they might not have
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by cosmie 6y ago
> I don't understand what commercial landlords are thinking? Financial engineering/optimization. I'm not well versed in it myself, but from my understanding: Commercial landlords can harvest a paper loss from a vacant unit
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by cosmie 6y ago
Cadillac (and other auto manufacturers) structure their program to include dealerships, rather than to cut them out. The sale gets booked against and delivered by a local dealership, rather than Cadillac the manufacturer. Tesla does not hav
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by cosmie 6y ago
While not quite the same, they're releasing an Excel feature/template called "Money in Excel" soon[1], that uses a Plaid integration to pull live financial data into Excel to work with. [1] https://support.off
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by cosmie 6y ago
I feel your frustration with Home Depot in particular - I live right in between two stores with wildly different layouts, and it drives me bonkers. One store seems to have the "traditional" layout, that I can successfully navigate
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by cosmie 6y ago
> I have a hard time reconciling what (little) I know about in the US medical system between insurance behavior, doctor choice, and ads aimed at patient choice. As a patient, you don't get to choose what drugs a doctor prescribes to
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by cosmie 6y ago
> How do you explain that in the era of machine learning and no holds barred privacy invasion? Google provides a platform for advertisers to use. The sophistication of that usage, however, is up to the marketers actually using it. At a s
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by cosmie 6y ago
Some of those are legitimately good brands (Anker and RAVpower being two I'm personally familiar with). Anker has even grown in North America to the point of having distribution within physical stores such as Sam's Club[1]. That s
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by cosmie 6y ago
Dell released an app[1] that allows for this, which supports both Android and iPhone. While in theory it's intended for use on Dells, there are workarounds[2] to get past that check and install it on any Windows computer. [1] https:&#
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by cosmie 6y ago
> so he lives and dies with the company email While I don't see too many people take advantage of it, you can make a Google account without an associated Gmail account. You just have to choose "Use my current email address inst
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by cosmie 6y ago
> Also, if the overheating issues are true then macOS should issue a warning when charging from an unsuitable port. It doesn't seem to be an issue with the port being unsuitable - the SE post mentions[1] that the right side similarl
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by cosmie 6y ago
Out of curiosity, when a transactions is part of one of those random samples and is flagged as fraudulent, are the costs/impacts to the merchant the same as any other fraud chargeback/dispute (particularly those that don't
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by cosmie 7y ago
Microsoft is even integrating seamless access shortcuts to the WSL filesystems as top level citizens within File Explorer[1]. https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/8/21213783/microsoft-windows...
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by cosmie 7y ago
This. The fundamentals of the USPS are fine, they're only struggling artificially due to being placed in an impossible situation by Congress[1]. The short of it: 1. Congress required the USPS to fully pre-fund their retirement benefits

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